Couch-hammock



G. F. SISBUWER AND L. E. PITTUNI.

COUCH HAMMOCK.

AWLICAHOH FILED MAR ||,192|.

1,401,286, Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

"UNITED STATES PATENT -oFFlcEi GEORGE F. SISBOWER, 0F FLUSHING, AND LOUIS E. PITI'ONI, 0F NEW YORK, .N. Y.,

ASSIGNOBS T0 MANHATTAN-ROME COMPANY, BRANCH 0F ROME METALLIC BED- BTEAD C0., OFVLONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

COUCH-HAMMOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 27, 1921' Application led March 11, 1921. Serial No. 451,511.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE F. SisBowEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flushin in the county of Queens and State of New ork, and LOUIS E. PrrroNi, a suo jyect of the King of Italy, residing at New ork cit in the county of Queens and State of New ork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Couch-Hammocks, the following being a full, clear, and exact disclosure of the one form of our invention which we at resent deem preferable.

For a' detailed description of the present form of our invention, reference may be had to the following specification and to the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, wherein-4 Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of our device;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof partly in section; v

Fig. 3' shows the folding arrangement of the end standards, and

Fig. 4 shows the arm rest in detail.

Heretofore couch-hammocks have been in .the nature of a sling, complete in itself by a havingdiverging legs at each end. he

flexible end-strip has been provided with a pocketed Wooden bar along its upper edges rom which ropes or chains converge to a ring. This ring is the point of attachment of the rope or chain by which the hammock is slung. V

It is our purpose to organize a couch hammock into a chairlike structure that in many cases can takel the place of a davenport while still retaining `much of its hammock char acter. To this end we combine a hammock seat with a framed support having upright members at its ends that closely embrace the ends of the hammock seat and are joined by a lon 'tudinal connection underneath the seat. n the front and back of each upright .there is a depending link leading to one corner of the seat.

Referring to the dra-win A A are two vertical bars connected wit each other at the top by a cross-bar A1 and at the bottom by a floorfbar A. These bars thus connected' form an upright frame or standard ittmg ole the seat frame at each end of the hammock. Each har A is joined at b to a bar B which extends longitudinally under the hammock seat to the corresponding frame-bar A at the op-posite ends. Also, at a, is jointed a diagonal brace link C which is detachably connected to bar B at B2 by means of a bolt and nut. By this means the end frame can be folded up against B, when the bolt at B2 is removed, and, together with the hammock seat and the folded-down back, make a flat package, as shown in Fig. 3, for convenient transportation.

v On the upper side of the cross bar A1 is secured a carrier F, which may be a flat stripv of wood, and a doubled strap of leather or fabric G is nailed on the top of the carrier. The looped ends g g1 of the strap form links that depend downwardly and outwardly from points on the upright spaced apart in a fore-and-aft direction and sup-port the hammock seat, the two links being looped over pins H and H1 that project from the bar D of the hammock-seat frame at the two corners of the seat. These links g g1 give the seat a swinging capacity, which is, however, of short range. It should be observed that the strap Gr is in the plane of the carrier F and that the pins H H1 reject into the same plane whereby there is a direct pull of the hammock seat through` the strap-links g, gl on the carrier F which, in turn, transmits the stress directly down on the end frame or standard which rests on the floor. The two end standards or u rights, together with the longitudinal bars B under the hammockseat constitute an underlying yoke or U- framework with its up-right ends embracing the seat end in which the hammock is suspended, being given a swinging support therein by means of the short depending stra inks g g1.

hile we do not restrict ourselves to the illustrated height of the end frames we prefer to make them as shown in order that their 'upper parts may form a stationary arm-rest.

In the form illustrated the strap G lying on the carrier F constitutes the top surface of the arm rest.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A couch-hammock comprising in combination a hammockseat, an underlying support having a, longitudinal member under the4 seat with two uprights embracing the ends of the seat and forming arm-rests, and depending strap links bearing on the upper surface of sald uprights and engaging the respective corners of the seat.

2. A couch-hammock comprising in combination a hammock-seat, an underlying sup` 3. A couch-hammock comprising in com-` bination a hammock-seat7 an underlying stationary support having a longitudinal member under the seat with upright arm-rest members embracing the ends of the seat and links depending from the front and back of the said arm-rest members and in line therewith to the corresponding corners of the seat.

4. A couch-hammock comprising a ham- .mock-seat, a support having a longitudinal member under the seat with upright ends between which the seat may swing, and a link connection betwen the seat and each up right located in the plane of said upright.

5. A couch-hammock comprising a seatframe and off-set links at its ends, together with a support having uprights extending into the plane of and between said oil-set links and embracing the ends of the sent with clearance therein for the fore-and-aft movement of said links.

Signed at Long Island City, county of Queens and State of New York, this 10th day of March, 1921.

GEORGE F. SISBOWER.

LOUIS E. PITTONI. 

